Trading one outage for another
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torquillWell, whatever exposure that was, I seem to have worked through it. I have no idea where I picked it up -- I've been to at least a dozen new places in the last week, including a couple of airports, so it could be anything. I'm crossing my fingers it wasn't from any of my classrooms...
At any rate, I'm pretty much back to normal brainwise, though I probably shouldn't do anything strenuous physically. I'm able to read the biochem chapters and do homework, which was what I was really worried about.
The net connection, on the other hand, isn't feeling too hot. We switched over to Speakeasy finally, and not two days later we get the same hairball in the 'tubes we've been struggling with for months. I can't reach Questionable Content at all, LJ is spotty, and IM networks keep tossing me off. This is tiresome. I did put in an enormous hosts file just to decrease the number of requests Firefox can stall on, but I'm still getting a lot of pages that will only half-load.
Lynx is doing pretty well despite all this, but I can't read QC on Lynx. :P
I'm reluctant to spend most of my day hammering this out with Speakeasy, partly because I have other things that have to be done, and partly because I'm not sure I have all the info I'd need -- I know I need to find the phone number it's actually installed on, for example, and I have no idea what their nameserver IPs are in case they want me to try theirs -- and I don't feel like hunting it all down. Besides, I'd get to answer all the same questions we've gone through with meer.net: Did you power-cycle the router? Are you sure it isn't a problem with the LAN? Have you tried a different DNS? I'm not sure I have the patience.
I should read biochem instead, then go out to pick the peas.
At any rate, I'm pretty much back to normal brainwise, though I probably shouldn't do anything strenuous physically. I'm able to read the biochem chapters and do homework, which was what I was really worried about.
The net connection, on the other hand, isn't feeling too hot. We switched over to Speakeasy finally, and not two days later we get the same hairball in the 'tubes we've been struggling with for months. I can't reach Questionable Content at all, LJ is spotty, and IM networks keep tossing me off. This is tiresome. I did put in an enormous hosts file just to decrease the number of requests Firefox can stall on, but I'm still getting a lot of pages that will only half-load.
Lynx is doing pretty well despite all this, but I can't read QC on Lynx. :P
I'm reluctant to spend most of my day hammering this out with Speakeasy, partly because I have other things that have to be done, and partly because I'm not sure I have all the info I'd need -- I know I need to find the phone number it's actually installed on, for example, and I have no idea what their nameserver IPs are in case they want me to try theirs -- and I don't feel like hunting it all down. Besides, I'd get to answer all the same questions we've gone through with meer.net: Did you power-cycle the router? Are you sure it isn't a problem with the LAN? Have you tried a different DNS? I'm not sure I have the patience.
I should read biochem instead, then go out to pick the peas.
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